Cosmopolis - The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

Klappentext With wisdom and wit, Stephen Toulmin challenges that human nature and society could be fitted into exact rational categories and explores the consequences of moving beyond it for our present and future world. Zusammenfassung In the 17th century! the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. This text confronts that agenda - its illusions and its consequences.

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• Authors: Stephen oulmin, Stephen Toulmin, Stephen E. Toulmin, Toulmin Stephen, TOULMIN STEPHEN E
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1992
• EAN: 9780226808383
• ISBN: 978-0-226-80838-3
• No. of pages: 235
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Anthropology, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800